How to format your references using the Annals of Intensive Care citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of Intensive Care. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

1. Kreeger K. At last, a chance for postdocs to learn how to teach. Nature. 2002;415:5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Chien P, Weissman JS. Conformational diversity in a yeast prion dictates its seeding specificity. Nature. 2001;410:223–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. McAlary L, Yerbury JJ, Aquilina JA. Glutathionylation potentiates benign superoxide dismutase 1 variants to the toxic forms associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3275.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Houghton AM, Hartzell WO, Robbins CS, Gomis-Rüth FX, Shapiro SD. Macrophage elastase kills bacteria within murine macrophages. Nature. 2009;460:637–41.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

1. Schaik CPV. The Primate Origins of Human Nature. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Jiang X, Petkov N, editors. Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns: 13th International Conference, CAIP 2009, Münster, Germany, September 2-4, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Keizer S, Bunt H, Petukhova V. Multidimensional Dialogue Management. In: Bosch A van D, Bouma G, editors. Interactive Multi-modal Question-Answering. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 57–86.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Annals of Intensive Care.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. This Technique Could Lead To Self-Healing Tires [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/technique-could-lead-self-healing-tires/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

1. Government Accountability Office. Transportation Research: Opportunities for Improving the Oversight of DOT’s Research Programs and User Satisfaction with Transportation Statistics. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Aug. Report No.: GAO-06-917.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Kinney EL. Isolation, identification, and antimicrobial susceptibility analysis of Enterococccus spp. and Salmonella spp. from conventional poultry farms transitioning to organic farming practices [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2009.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

1. Mueller B, Baker AL. A Mother Slain on a Playground, a Sea of Witnesses Gone Silent. New York Times. 2016 Oct 7;A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of Intensive Care
Abbreviation	Ann. Intensive Care
ISSN (online)	2110-5820
Scope	Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine